# Quotes about relationships - Quotes: 22 - Authors: 13 - Topic page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/relationships ## Quotes > What was the point of spending your life with someone you were always looking for ways to deceive? [Erica Jong](https://www.leafyquotes.com/erica-jong.md) · [How to Save Your Own Life](https://www.leafyquotes.com/erica-jong/how-to-save-your-own-life.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/erica-jong/how-to-save-your-own-life/what-was-the.md) Topics: [relationships](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/relationships.md), [lies](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/lies.md) > I only know that in our choice of friends and lovers and teachers who will change our lives, we are guided by forces which have nothing to do with the rationalizations we give. [Erica Jong](https://www.leafyquotes.com/erica-jong.md) · [How to Save Your Own Life](https://www.leafyquotes.com/erica-jong/how-to-save-your-own-life.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/erica-jong/how-to-save-your-own-life/i-only-know.md) Topics: [relationships](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/relationships.md), [choices](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/choices.md) > If one by one we counted people out > > For the least sin, it wouldn't take us long > > To get so we had no one left to live with. > > For to be social is to be forgiving. [Robert Frost](https://www.leafyquotes.com/robert-frost.md) · [New Hampshire](https://www.leafyquotes.com/robert-frost/new-hampshire.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/robert-frost/new-hampshire/if-one-by-one.md) Topics: [relationships](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/relationships.md) > I will fight for you, yes, and you will fight for me. And if you have sacrificed joy and courage and beauty and wisdom for my sake, I will give them all to you again; and yet you must also give them to me, for they are things in which without you I am wanting. But together we can make them. Martin Pippin in the Apple Orchard Topics: [love](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/love.md), [relationships](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/relationships.md) > The gentleman is a Stoic because he is a sort of savage, because he is filled with a great elemental fear that some stranger will speak to him. That is why a third-class carriage is a community, while a first-class carriage is a place of wild hermits. [G. Chesterton](https://www.leafyquotes.com/g-chesterton.md) · [Heretics](https://www.leafyquotes.com/g-chesterton/heretics.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/g-chesterton/heretics/the-gentleman-is-a-stoic.md) Topics: [relationships](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/relationships.md) > We make our friends; we make our enemies; but God makes our next-door neighbour. [G. Chesterton](https://www.leafyquotes.com/g-chesterton.md) · [Heretics](https://www.leafyquotes.com/g-chesterton/heretics.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/g-chesterton/heretics/we-make-our.md) Topics: [relationships](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/relationships.md) > If we were to-morrow morning snowed up in the street in which we live, we should step suddenly into a much larger and much wilder world than we have ever known. And it is the whole effort of the typically modern person to escape from the street in which he lives. First he invents modern hygiene and goes to Margate. Then he invents modern culture and goes to Florence. Then he invents modern imperialism and goes to Timbuctoo. He goes to the fantastic borders of the earth. He pretends to shoot tigers. He almost rides on a camel. And in all this he is still essentially fleeing from the street in which he was born; and of this flight he is always ready with his own explanation. He says he is fleeing from his street because it is dull; he is lying. He is really fleeing from his street because it is a great deal too exciting. It is exciting because it is exacting; it is exacting because it is alive. He can visit Venice because to him the Venetians are only Venetians; the people in his own street are men. He can stare at the Chinese because for him the Chinese are a passive thing to be stared at; if he stares at the old lady in the next garden, she becomes active. He is forced to flee, in short, from the too stimulating society of his equals—of free men, perverse, personal, deliberately different from himself. The street in Brixton is too glowing and overpowering. [G. Chesterton](https://www.leafyquotes.com/g-chesterton.md) · [Heretics](https://www.leafyquotes.com/g-chesterton/heretics.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/g-chesterton/heretics/if-we-were.md) Topics: [society](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/society.md), [relationships](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/relationships.md) > The man who lives in a small community lives in a much larger world. He knows much more of the fierce varieties and uncompromising divergences of men. The reason is obvious. In a large community we can choose our companions. In a small community our companions are chosen for us. Thus in all extensive and highly civilized societies groups come into existence founded upon what is called sympathy, and shut out the real world more sharply than the gates of a monastery. There is nothing really narrow about the clan; the thing which is really narrow is the clique. The men of the clan live together because they all wear the same tartan or are all descended from the same sacred cow; but in their souls, by the divine luck of things, there will always be more colours than in any tartan. But the men of the clique live together because they have the same kind of soul, and their narrowness is a narrowness of spiritual coherence and contentment, like that which exists in hell. A big society exists in order to form cliques. A big society is a society for the promotion of narrowness. It is a machinery for the purpose of guarding the solitary and sensitive individual from all experience of the bitter and bracing human compromises. It is, in the most literal sense of the words, a society for the prevention of Christian knowledge. [G. Chesterton](https://www.leafyquotes.com/g-chesterton.md) · [Heretics](https://www.leafyquotes.com/g-chesterton/heretics.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/g-chesterton/heretics/the-man-who.md) Topics: [society](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/society.md), [relationships](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/relationships.md) > Anyway, just because you're sworn enemies doesn't mean you can't be friends, does it? [Terry Pratchett](https://www.leafyquotes.com/terry-pratchett.md) · [The Carpet People](https://www.leafyquotes.com/terry-pratchett/the-carpet-people.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/terry-pratchett/the-carpet-people/anyway-just-because.md) Topics: [relationships](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/relationships.md) > Every human being lived behind an impenetrable wall of choking mist within which no other but he existed. Occasionally there were the dim signals from deep within the cavern in which another man was located — so that each might grope toward the other. Yet because they did not know one another, and could not understand one another, and dared not trust one another, and felt from infancy the terrors and insecurity of that ultimate isolation — there was the hunted fear of man for man, the savage rapacity of man toward man. [Isaac Asimov](https://www.leafyquotes.com/isaac-asimov.md) · [Second Foundation](https://www.leafyquotes.com/isaac-asimov/second-foundation.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/isaac-asimov/second-foundation/every-human-being.md) Topics: [relationships](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/relationships.md), [loneliness](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/loneliness.md) > Without the interplay of human against human, the chief interest in life is gone; most of the intellectual values are gone; most of the reason for living is gone. [Isaac Asimov](https://www.leafyquotes.com/isaac-asimov.md) · [The Naked Sun](https://www.leafyquotes.com/isaac-asimov/the-naked-sun.md) · p. 398 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/isaac-asimov/the-naked-sun/without-the-interplay.md) Topics: [relationships](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/relationships.md), [meaning of life](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/meaning-of-life.md) > What I was actually trying to do in my early movies was show how people can meet other people and what they can do and what they can say to each other. That was the whole idea: two people getting acquainted. And then when you saw it and you saw the sheer simplicity of it, you learned what it was all about. Those movies showed you how some people act and react with other people. They were like actual sociological 'For instance's. They were like documentaries, and if you thought it could apply to you, it was an example, and if it didn't apply to you, at least it was a documentary, it could apply to somebody you knew and it could clear up some questions you had about them. The Philosophy of Andy Warhol Topics: [relationships](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/relationships.md) > She was haunted by the vision of Chaval, and rambled on about him, about their cat and dog life together, the one day when he had been nice to her, in Jean-Bart, and the other days or alternate caresses and blows, when he half killed her with his embraces after nearly beating her to death. Germinal Topics: [suffering](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/suffering.md), [relationships](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/relationships.md) > When they seated themselves in their carriage, they seemed to be greater strangers than before. Thérèse Raquin Topics: [relationships](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/relationships.md) > You know what charm is: a way of getting the answer 'yes' without having asked any clear question. [Albert Camus](https://www.leafyquotes.com/albert-camus.md) · [The Fall](https://www.leafyquotes.com/albert-camus/the-fall.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/albert-camus/the-fall/you-know-what.md) Topics: [relationships](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/relationships.md) > Thus I progressed on the surface of life, in the realm of words as it were, never in reality. All those books barely read, those friends barely loved, those cities barely visited, those women barely possessed! I went through the gestures out of boredom or absent-mindedness. Then came the human beings, they wanted to cling, but there was nothing to cling to, and that was unfortunate – for them. As for me, I forgot. I never remembered anything but myself. [Albert Camus](https://www.leafyquotes.com/albert-camus.md) · [The Fall](https://www.leafyquotes.com/albert-camus/the-fall.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/albert-camus/the-fall/thus-i-progressed.md) Topics: [relationships](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/relationships.md) > He kept the middle way, that's all: he was the type of man for whom one has an affection of the mild but steady order - which is the kind that wears best. [Albert Camus](https://www.leafyquotes.com/albert-camus.md) · [The Plague](https://www.leafyquotes.com/albert-camus/the-plague.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/albert-camus/the-plague/he-kept-the.md) Topics: [relationships](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/relationships.md) > He marveled at the strange blindness by which men, though they are so alert to what changes in themselves, impose on their friends an image chosen for them once and for all. He was being judged by what he had been. Just as dogs don't change character, men are dogs to one another. [Albert Camus](https://www.leafyquotes.com/albert-camus.md) · [A Happy Death](https://www.leafyquotes.com/albert-camus/a-happy-death.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/albert-camus/a-happy-death/he-marveled-at-the.md) Topics: [change](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/change.md), [relationships](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/relationships.md) > Contrary to what many women believe, it's fairly easy to develop a long-term, stable, intimate, and mutually fulfilling relationship with a guy. Of course this guy has to be a Labrador retriever. With human guys, it's extremely difficult. This is because guys don't really grasp what women mean by the term relationship. [Dave Barry](https://www.leafyquotes.com/dave-barry.md) · [Dave Barry's Complete Guide to Guys](https://www.leafyquotes.com/dave-barry/dave-barrys-complete-guide-to-guys.md) · p. 59 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/dave-barry/dave-barrys-complete-guide-to-guys/contrary-to-what.md) Topics: [relationships](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/relationships.md) > For fifty bucks, I learned, you could "relate without getting close." For a hundred, a girl would lend you her Bartók records, have dinner, and then let you watch while she had an anxiety attack. For one-fifty, you could listen to FM radio with twins. For three bills, you got the works: A thin Jewish brunette would pretend to pick you up at the Museum of Modern Art, let you read her master's, get you involved in a screaming quarrel at Elaine's over Freud's conception of women, and then fake a suicide of your choosing - the perfect evening, for some guys. [Woody Allen](https://www.leafyquotes.com/woody-allen.md) · [Without Feathers](https://www.leafyquotes.com/woody-allen/without-feathers.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/woody-allen/without-feathers/for-fifty-bucks.md) Topics: [relationships](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/relationships.md) > Independence? That's middle-class blasphemy. We are all dependent on one another, every soul of us on earth. [George Bernard Shaw](https://www.leafyquotes.com/george-bernard-shaw.md) · [Pygmalion](https://www.leafyquotes.com/george-bernard-shaw/pygmalion.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/george-bernard-shaw/pygmalion/independence-thats-middle-class.md) Topics: [society](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/society.md), [relationships](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/relationships.md) > These are mere business relations, miss; there is no friendship in them, no particular interest, nothing like sentiment. I have passed from one to another, in the course of my business life, just as I pass from one of our customers to another in the course of my business day; in short, I have no feelings; I am a mere machine. To go on... [Charles Dickens](https://www.leafyquotes.com/charles-dickens.md) · [A Tale of Two Cities](https://www.leafyquotes.com/charles-dickens/a-tale-of-two-cities.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/charles-dickens/a-tale-of-two-cities/these-are-mere.md) Topics: [work](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/work.md), [relationships](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/relationships.md)